PSNY Salon Series: Dorothea Lasky's The Shining
Please help us welcome back The Poetry Society of New York's Salon Series with Dorothea Lasky's new collection, The Shining!
ABOUT THE EVENT:
The Poetry Society of New York's quarterly Salon Series aims to create a sanctuary where writers and literature lovers can meet, mingle, think, feel, indulge, discuss, listen, learn, and live life to its fullest!
Each event includes a featured reading and Q&A with an esteemed poet celebrating a new book, a handful of short poetry readings by PSNY members, and a complimentary open bar throughout. Doors open at 6pm. Readings begin at 7pm. Cocktail attire is encouraged but not required.
This event's featured reader is Dorothea Lasky, whose latest poetry collection, The Shining, was released by Wave Books this year. Copies of The Shining can be purchased on site, and admission to this event is free and open to the public, though donations are kindly suggested.
*Members of The Poetry Society of New York are invited to join us for an exclusive cocktail party from 5-6pm before the event. Become a PSNY member today!*
ABOUT THE READER:Dorothea Lasky has published collections of poetry including Milk (2018), ROME (2014), Thunderbird (2012), Black Life (2010), and AWE (2007), as well as several chapbooks, including Snakes (2017) and Poetry Is Not a Project (2010). She is the editor of Essays (2021) and co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (2013). In 2019, Lasky published Animal, a book of prose essays on the craft of poetry. Lasky’s poems have appeared in a number of publications, including the New Yorker, Paris Review, and American Poetry Review.
Dorothea Lasky was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned a BA from Washington University, an MFA at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a Masters in Arts Education from Harvard University, and a doctorate in Creativity and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Lasky was awarded a Bagley Wright Fellowship in 2013, and currently, she is an associate professor of poetry at Columbia University, where she directs the poetry program.